Hello from Anglicareland.
Hello!
It's my first post from within the Anglicare building. I'm sitting at a desk that isn't really mine, but I like to pretend that it is.
This morning I have been preoccupied with the very exciting task of painstakingly labelling maps of a range of capital cities and lareg towns in Australia with significant suburbs. It's a hard gig, because I haven't been to many of these places I don't really know which ones the significant suburbs are. It's been a morning of working on gut feeling.
While working on the map of Newcastle, I noticed a strange pattern. Clumped near the CBD of Newcastle are a couple of suburbs by the names of:
Wickham
Georgetown
Lambton.
Anyone else notice a pattern? Congratulations! You are a Jane Austen nerd just like me! maybe the people who named these suburbs were also Jane Austen fans.
After lunch I can put away this tedious work (which is not for Anglicare, but for another Christian research organisation) and turn my eyes to real Anglicare work - painstakingly labelling maps of where every Anglicare service is located (!)
i have discovered there are two types of working days that I have here. The first is research work. I spend these days digging up data from Census excel files, turning them into maps and interpreting the data. At the end of these days I have learnt wonderful new facts about how many old people cluster in Ulladulla, how many poor people cluster in Liverpool and how many people who were born in India live next to Toongabble Railway Station.
The second is aesthetic work, where I spend hours moving labels on maps backwards and forwards until they are perfectly aligned and the map looks good enough to show in public. Everytime I move a label, it takes about a minute for the screen to load again (try running GIS software off a laptop!). Needless to say, the first type is much more fun. Today is a second type of work day. But that's ok, because it's better than standing up at a newsagency.
It's my first post from within the Anglicare building. I'm sitting at a desk that isn't really mine, but I like to pretend that it is.
This morning I have been preoccupied with the very exciting task of painstakingly labelling maps of a range of capital cities and lareg towns in Australia with significant suburbs. It's a hard gig, because I haven't been to many of these places I don't really know which ones the significant suburbs are. It's been a morning of working on gut feeling.
While working on the map of Newcastle, I noticed a strange pattern. Clumped near the CBD of Newcastle are a couple of suburbs by the names of:
Wickham
Georgetown
Lambton.
Anyone else notice a pattern? Congratulations! You are a Jane Austen nerd just like me! maybe the people who named these suburbs were also Jane Austen fans.
After lunch I can put away this tedious work (which is not for Anglicare, but for another Christian research organisation) and turn my eyes to real Anglicare work - painstakingly labelling maps of where every Anglicare service is located (!)
i have discovered there are two types of working days that I have here. The first is research work. I spend these days digging up data from Census excel files, turning them into maps and interpreting the data. At the end of these days I have learnt wonderful new facts about how many old people cluster in Ulladulla, how many poor people cluster in Liverpool and how many people who were born in India live next to Toongabble Railway Station.
The second is aesthetic work, where I spend hours moving labels on maps backwards and forwards until they are perfectly aligned and the map looks good enough to show in public. Everytime I move a label, it takes about a minute for the screen to load again (try running GIS software off a laptop!). Needless to say, the first type is much more fun. Today is a second type of work day. But that's ok, because it's better than standing up at a newsagency.